HR, the Epitome of Incompetence

Why the hell does HR have the amount of power that they do? They are by far the most inept group of brain-dead crayon eating simpletons at every single business on the planet. 

“How many people from HR does it take to change a lightbulb?”

Nobody knows, because no one is dumb enough to think that someone from HR could actually change a light bulb. Fucking maintenance workers in every building should make more money than HR. 

Just venting to be honest. I had a superday at a big BB bank, and it went fairly well with both MD’s. But not perfect, so yes I know I need to work on my technicals a little more blah blah whatever. 

But…what I'm annoyed about is that the dipshit HR talent rep handling everything keeps leading me on, week after week, for no reason instead of just flat out telling me no or not responding. Almost a month after interviewing. 

Even to the point that I was told that I’ll be contacted “today” earlier this week. Only to wind up being ghosted lmao. Just seems really unprofessional, I would have rather just been completely ghosted after the conclusion of the interview. Idk, not that mad but not exactly happy. It’s crazy how common ghosting is in 2021 when sending the standard “we won’t be pursuing your candidacy further..” to final round superday candidates probably takes 5 minutes max. I mean what the hell else do these communications majors have to do with their time anyway…..seriously, simple email responses and onboarding are basically their entire jobs.

Feel free to tell any HR or generally stupid hiring process stories in the comments.

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